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Chris Mooney, author of "Unscientific America"

Chris Mooney talks about his new book, "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future," at the AIBS meeting in May 2009, Washington DC. To see this talk with its slides, go to live.blueskybroadcast.com

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Length: 30:28
Tags: Mooney Unscientific America science literacy AIBS

BMCC Student Wins Grand Prize in CUNY-wide Nobel Science Challenge

BMCC's Kimberly Thompson wins CUNY Grand Prize. MARCH 4, 2010 View Slide Show STORY HIGHLIGHTS BMCC science major, Kimberly Thompson, wins Grand Prize in CUNY-wide Nobel Challenge essay contest. Thompson's winning essay explores the Nobel prizewinning work of Elinor Ostrom, who proposed eight...

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Length: 2:34
Tags: kimberly thomas

Chris Mooney: Reaching Beyond the Choir

Chris Mooney is the author of The Republican War on Science, Unscientific America and a co-blogger at The Intersection. We caught up with Chris at the release of the AAAS study "Do Scientists Understand the Public?" and asked him a few questions. Study: www.amacad.org

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Length: 3:16
Tags: science communication climategate chris mooney the intersection aaas scientists understand public

What are you scared of?

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Length: 5:0
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Dr. Zakir responds to vegetarians about "all life is sacred"

Let us analyze the 'Humane reason', the 'Ethical reasons' - And the pure Vegetarians, they say that... 'All life is sacred - and no living creature should be killed'. They fail to realize that today, it is a universal fact, that even plants have got life - So the main argument on killing living...

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Length: 2:16
Tags: zakir naik

Authors@Google : Dan Gardner

Dan Gardner talking about his book, "The Science and Politics of Fear". Dan will discuss a new way of thinking about the risks we take and the decisions we make in daily life. Having spoken to psychologists, economists and scientists, he throws light on our paranoia about everything from...

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Length: 64:26
Tags: Dan Gardiner

Views from Iran with Laura Secor

For nearly a decade, freelance journalist Laura Secor has covered Iranian culture and politics, including last year's contentious presidential election, in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Her work reaches beyond sound bites and pundits to connect with...